Thomas Borchert wrote:
If you fly an airplane, you're an airplane pilot.

Uhuh. Like that 10-year-old girl (?) that got killed a while ago while
"piloting" a plane on a publicity stunt, right?

If it's the one I think you're thinking of (2nd leg of trip originating
from Half Moon Bay, CA), she was not alone, she was with her father and
a flight instructor, and it was reported (accuracy unknown) that to stay
on schedule for the media there and at the next scheduled location, they
knowingly took off into weather. Was that ever verified?